Security Research
Oracle has released 219 new security patches as a part of the quarterly update cycle. 142 vulnerabilities are remotely exploitable without user credentials. Oracle MySQL received 34 security patches. 9 vulnerabilities allow an attacker to exploit the underlying flaws over the network without any form of authentication. CVE-2019-8457 is considered to be the most critical […]
Read More →Adobe released out-of-band security updates for four products. These updates addressed a total of 82 vulnerabilities. 46 vulnerabilities are rated critical and 31 vulnerabilities are rated important in severity. All the critical vulnerabilities lead to Arbitrary Code Execution and 34 vulnerabilities lead to disclosure of sensitive information. Adobe Acrobat and Reader 68 vulnerabilities were addressed […]
Read More →Linux users, beware! One of the most powerful and well known command line utility, sudo, could aid users to gain superuser privileges in spite of the existing restrictions. With sudo being installed in almost all flavors of UNIX-like operating systems, a major number of users could possibly be affected. Who said security was easy? Right, […]
Read More →Apple released security updates a week ago which included a fix for a zero-day vulnerability. Morphisec discovered active exploitation of an Apple vulnerability by BitPaymer/IEncrypt campaign. BitPaymer/IEncrypt campaign has been targeting various public and private sector industries spread across the U.S. This campaign uses spearphishing emails as its initial infection vector and delivers Dridex malware. […]
Read More →iTerm2 is one of the most popular macOS terminal emulator and is a default choice for developers and administrators due to its extensive features like windows transparency, full-screen mode, notifications, integration with tmux etc. A critical remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in iTerm2 by Radically Open Security, as part of an independent security […]
Read More →Apple released a set of security updates for its products this month. There are a total of 24 CVEs which includes the first set of updates for Apple’s new macOS Catalina. MacOS Catalina, the latest version of Apple’s desktop operating system was released on October 7. Catalina comes with updated security features to protect the […]
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